SUNDAY
5.00–6.00: Welcome Reception (Trinity Long Room Hub)
Book Launch of Beckett’s Theatrical Notebooks with Faber & Faber
From 6.15: Welcome drinks (Doyle’s Pub)
MONDAY
9.30–11.00: Olga Beloborodova: “Beyond the Skullscape: Extended Cognition in Samuel Beckett’s Prose” (TLRH: Neill)
11.00–11.30: Coffee (TLRH: Hoey)
11.30–1.00: S. E. Gontarski: “Samuel Beckett and the Re-fashioning of Irish Modernisms” (TLRH: Neill)
1.00–2.30: Lunch (The Buttery)
2.30–5.30: SEMINARS
“Beckett and Irish History”; Feargal Whelan (TLRH: Neill Theatre)
“Beckett’s Manuscripts”; Dirk Van Hulle & Mark Nixon (TLRH: Galbraith)
“Performance Workshop: Sculpting Beckett in Space”; Sarah Jane Scaife (Beckett
Centre: Players Theatre)
“Reading Beckett’s Drama: Happy Days, Play, and Not I; Jonathan Heron (Beckett
Centre: Seminar Room)
6.00–8.00: Launch and Reception, How It Is: Part Two (Samuel Beckett Theatre)
From 8.00: Dinner (Kennedy’s Pub)
TUESDAY
9.30–11.00: Pascale Sardin: “Samuel Beckett & Barbara Bray: a Thirty-Year Collaboration” (TLRH: Neill)
11.00–11.30: Coffee (TLRH: Hoey)
11.30–1.00: Katherine Weiss: “‘Of her tenacious trace’: Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art” (TLRH: Neill)
1.00–2.15: Lunch (The Buttery)
2.15–5.15: SEMINARS
6.00–8.00: Beckett Behind Bars (Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin 8)
WEDNESDAY
9.30–10.50: “Beckett’s Manuscripts” seminar, special session for MS group (Henry Jones Room, Old Library; meet at West Entrance of Old Library)
11.00–1.00: “Beckett and Laughter” plenary “long table” (TLRH: Neill)
1.15: Meet at Pavilion Bar (inside Lincoln Place gate) for tour
1.30–6.00: Tour of the Beckett Country, led by Feargal Whelan
From 6.30: Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing (TLRH: Neill)
THURSDAY
9.30–11.00: Nicholas Johnson: “Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking” (TLRH: Neill)
11.00–11.30: Coffee (TLRH: Hoey)
11.30–1.00: Behind the Scenes: The Beckett Archive at Trinity College Dublin
1.00–2.15: Lunch (TLRH: Hoey)
2.15–5.15: SEMINARS
5.30–6.00: Guided tour of the Old Library / Book of Kells
From 8.00: The Infamous Pub Quiz (Location TBC)
FRIDAY
9.30–11.30: SEMINARS (final meeting, preparing presentations)
12.00–1.00: In Conversation: Joe Caslin and Leah Kenny (TLRH: Neill)
1.00–2.30: Informal 2019 photograph and Lunch (TLRH: Hoey)
2.30–4.00: Seminar presentations (TLRH: Neill)
5.00–6.00: Performance Workshop presentation (Beckett Centre: Players Theatre)
6.00–6.15: Official 2019 photograph (Beckett Centre: Players Theatre)
7.00: Assemble at Front Gate for walk to Brother Hubbard
From 7.30: Closing Banquet (Brother Hubbard)
SUNDAY
Third Participant Symposium of the Beckett Summer School, 10:00 – 2:00
Galbraith Seminar Room, Trinity Long Room Hub
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